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ECTS Announcements and Events
- ECTS Webinar: Insights into the osteocyte transcriptome: from biology to bone disorders, 09 July 2020 13:00 CET by Scott Youlten. Organised by ECTS and ECTS Academy in collaboration with ANZBMS Early Career Investigator Committee (ECIC) of the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society (ANZBMS).
- ECTS-GEMSTONE Digital Masterclass for PhD Students, Trainees and Young Investigators - More information
- Bone mineralisation controlled by autophagy in osteocytes by Natalie A Sims - Webinar recordings for ECTS members only - Watch here
- How to assess bone health in Chronic Kidney Disease by Pieter Evenepoel - Webinar recordings for ECTS members only - Watch here
- Therapeutic approaches in hypophosphatemic disorders by Michael Whyte - Webinar recordings for ECTS members only - Watch here
- Prof Outi Mäkitie, Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki, recipient of the 2020 Steven Boonen Award - More information
- Prof Rajesh V Thakker, University of Oxford, Oxford UK, recipient of the 2020 Philippe Bordier Award - More information
- Prof Jane Lian PhD, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA recipient of the 2020 Mike Horton Award - More information
- Dr Andrea Palermo,Campus Bio-Medico University Rome, Italy recipient of the 2020 Iain T Boyle Award - More information
- Congratulations to our 2020 Fellowship Awardees Andreas Fontalis and Antonio Maurizi - More information
- ECTS 2020 to take place from 20-24 October 2020 as a live event in Marseille, with contingency plans if needed - Check the programme
- ECTS Webinars : 2020 calendar now available - Check it out
- Musculoskeletal Knowledge Portal, an open-access resource for omics results relevant to musculoskeletal traits and diseases. A collaborative initiative from the IFMRS and additional partners including ECTS - Access here
- Become an active ECTS member, part of a dynamic community - Join or renew your membership now
Other Announcements and Events
- ICCBH Bone School rescheduled. It will now be held in Dublin 30 June - 2 July 2021, prior the 10th International Conference on Children's Bone Health (ICCBH) 2021-More information
- 14th International Conference on Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI2020) - abstract submission and registration now open, Sheffield, UK, 5-8 September 2020 - More information
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What an honour to serve the ECTS as President in the last three years! Thank you for trusting me -
By
Anna Teti
Dear ECTS members, I just ended my terms as President of our society and would like to express my highest appreciation for your commitment to make the ECTS the premier European society in the musculoskeletal field. I am very much honoured to have served the ECTS in this role and to have worked with such talented colleagues. During my Presidency, about one third of the ECTS members were involved in our activities and I was so pleased to see the perfect coordination of the ECTS committees by our Secretary Gudrun Stenbeck. All Board members largely contributed to the success of the ECTS in these last three years and I would like to thank them one by one for their time and effort. Large part of the success was due to the activities of the ECTS Action Groups, each co-chaired by a talented ECTS member and coordinated by a Board member. This organisation allowed us to develop many activities.
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ECTS Digital Masterclass -
by Núria Guañabens and Fernando Rivadeneira
This year, the difficult COVID-19 period has brought dramatic changes to the world, and the education field is no exception, having to adapt the way we teach, learn and interact, now at a distance. While the 2020 PhD training course had to be postponed, ECTS will remain committed to its mission and organize this year an innovative
Digital Masterclass
for PhD Students, Trainees and Young Investigators. Following this contention, the format will be different, but will still maintain the balance between basic and clinical science and transversal skills. As described in the past ECTS Newsletter, this Digital Masterclass will be conducted in collaboration with the COST-Action GEnomics of MusculoSkeletal traits TranslatiOnal Network (
GEMSTONE
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"Mentoring Chat": a new mentoring option for new investigators- by Petar Milovanovic and Marietta Herrmann
The ECTS Academy offers different formats of mentoring for New Investigators, including undergraduates, PhD students and early stage post-docs. We have now introduced a new opportunity called Mentoring Chat. The aim of the new initiative is to allow early career researchers to take part in informal discussions on specific topics with members of the ECTS Academy. The first event of Mentoring Chat, named "Negative results and rejected paper(s) - no reason for frustration" will be hosted online on 6th July 2020, 5 PM (MET), and will address an important topic that bothers every young researcher. This online event is moderated by Marietta Herrmann (University of Wuerzburg, Germany) and Petar Milovanovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia). Participation is free, but
registration is required. For additional information and other mentoring opportunities for new investigators please visit the
link.
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Finnish Bone Society (FBS) - by Antti Koskela
Finnish Bone Society was founded in 1989
at the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Oulu during the annual meeting of the Finnish Medical Society (Duodecim). The initial capital was gathered from the profits made from an osteoporosis conference held a couple of months earlier in Finland. Among the founding members were several notable researchers who would later on build strong academic careers, such as Kalervo Väänänen (Rector at the University of Turku, Finland), and Christel Lamberg-Allardt, a prominent nutrition scientist focusing on Vitamin D. As an interesting side note, Lamberg-Allardt acted as the opponent for the present chairman's thesis defense in 2016. The 72 members of FBS constitute of a wide variety of researchers, from first-year PhD students to mature academic researchers, from medicine to biochemistry and nutrition scientists and the members are stretched in the biggest cities of Finland. This variety is, of course, one strength of FBS.
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Osteoclasts and osteoblasts: the Tom and Jerry of bone, one vitalizing the other -
by Teun de Vries
As a child, like probably all children of my generation, I was a big fan of the cartoons of Tom and Jerry. Tom could not exist without Jerry and vice versa. This cartoon series came to mind when considering the topic of the article covered for "News from the world" on coupling factors secreted by osteoclasts to activate cells from the osteoblast lineage. A recent review by Natalie A. Sims and T. John Martin in Annual Review of Physiology describes what we have learned from modeling and remodeling aspects. It particularly describes which factors are secreted by osteoclasts that attract and differentiate precursor cells into osteoblasts, cells that are needed for "restoring" in 3-4 months the "damage" done by osteoclasts within 3 weeks. The review takes us more less at the hand of history. How discovery started from elementary histological observations that led to carefully defining modeling versus remodeling, to candidate molecules that were either released from bone, like TGF-β towards secreted coupling factors such as RANK, found recently in osteoclast vesicles. The lengthy table summarizing the putative coupling factors that have all given direction to the field, is dazzling. Articles such as this review can probably only be written properly with people on board that started in the bone field over 50 years ago and who were not only observers, but who also contributed greatly to the field. Please treat yourself for an hour's pleasant reading. The article is very accessible, eloquently written and well-illustrated. Food for thought!
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ECTS Announcements and Events
- ECTS Webinar: Insights into the osteocyte transcriptome: from biology to bone disorders, 09 July 2020 13:00 CET by Scott Youlten. Organised by ECTS and ECTS Academy in collaboration with ANZBMS Early Career Investigator Committee (ECIC) of the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society (ANZBMS).
- ECTS-GEMSTONE Digital Masterclass for PhD Students, Trainees and Young Investigators - More information
- Bone mineralisation controlled by autophagy in osteocytes by Natalie A Sims - Webinar recordings for ECTS members only - Watch here
- How to assess bone health in Chronic Kidney Disease by Pieter Evenepoel - Webinar recordings for ECTS members only - Watch here
- Therapeutic approaches in hypophosphatemic disorders by Michael Whyte - Webinar recordings for ECTS members only - Watch here
- Prof Outi Mäkitie, Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki, recipient of the 2020 Steven Boonen Award - More information
- Prof Rajesh V Thakker, University of Oxford, Oxford UK, recipient of the 2020 Philippe Bordier Award - More information
- Prof Jane Lian PhD, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA recipient of the 2020 Mike Horton Award - More information
- Dr Andrea Palermo, Campus Bio-Medico University Rome, Italy recipient of the 2020 Iain T Boyle Award - More information
- Congratulations to our 2020 Fellowship Awardees Andreas Fontalis and Antonio Maurizi - More information
- ECTS 2020 to take place from 20-24 October 2020 as a live event in Marseille, with contingency plans if needed - Check the programme
- ECTS Webinars : 2020 calendar now available - Check it out
- Musculoskeletal Knowledge Portal, an open-access resource for omics results relevant to musculoskeletal traits and diseases. A collaborative initiative from the IFMRS and additional partners including ECTS - Access here
- Become an active ECTS member, part of a dynamic community - Join or renew your membership now
Other Announcements and Events
- ICCBH Bone School rescheduled. It will now be held in Dublin 30 June - 2 July 2021, prior the 10th International Conference on Children's Bone Health (ICCBH) 2021-More information
- 14th International Conference on Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI2020) - abstract submission and registration now open, Sheffield, UK, 5-8 September 2020 - More information
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ECTS is thankful to its Corporate Members and other companies that have supported ECTS activities through unrestricted educational grants. These sponsors have in no way contributed to or influenced the content.
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Editor in chief: Teun De Vries (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Co-editors: Petar Milovanovic (Belgrade, Serbia), Cristiana Cipriani (Rome, Italy)
Antonio Maurizi (L'Aquila, Italy)
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